Having seen every place Boots (with or without Susan and John) lived in the Boston area for 10 years, it was time to move further up the coast. We even found their base housing at Fort Devens. This was a real challenge and a lucky break as Fort Devens had been de-commissioned (in 1994??) and is now the village of Devens. The Massachusetts National Guard has some of the more military features in use. But at least the housing Boots and her family lived in remained.
Well, we passed through New Hampshire quickly. Like Maryland, we only covered about 10miles of New Hampshire before we arrive in Maine. So far, this seems to be the only state so far that has drivers consistently driving close to the speed limit – within 5 MPH in fact! How refreshing to not always see traffic pulling away from us.
The Maine mosquitoes are bigger than those in Alaska and voracious eaters. Being by the lake and small still water coves, they are breeding like crazy and looking for blood anywhere. As earlier reported, Ruthi is a bug attracter and needed to put bug spray/lotion on to keep any and all creatures (including humans as she smelled very potent). While we were getting camp set up Boots was their much appreciated victim.
